transaction "groups"?

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:30:26 PST
tudor said:

>> You should only need to do this once.  With "transaction completion", 
>> the rest of the transaction should automatically fill in once you 
>> type the description field in.
>
>That is right, and it works.  However, with every paycheck, I have 14
>transactions that are entered (drawn from my Income:Salary account):
>federal, medicare, social security, local, and state tax; accidental
>death & dismemberment, long term disability, and life insurance;
>medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401k; Employee Stock Purchase
>Plan (ESPP); net income (transferred to checking account)  I have an
>account for each of these categories.
>
>For example, here's a screenshot of my Gnucash Income:Salary account
>window after entering a paycheck: (amounts removed...)

I must be missing something.  When I type in Paycheck, then hit 'tab' 
to go to the next field, everything is entered for me based on the 
last time I entered the "Paycheck".  All 14 or so lines.  What's not 
working?

>http://dwyn.net/gnucash-ss.jpg
>
>What I'm looking for is a way to group all these transaction together,
>so that the whole set of 14 is entered when I type "Paycheck" into the
>Payee/Description field.  Any ideas?

ohhhhhhh!  I see what your problem is.  You're entering each think as 
a separate line item within the registry.  You don't want to do that.
You want to use the multi-line register mode and enter 1 entry
with a description of "Paycheck" then add each item within your 
paycheck as a *split* transaction to the main.

When you go to enter your paycheck, click on:

	Register->Style->Auto-Split Ledger

Now, create a new transaction, enter "Paycheck" in the description 
field and hit tab.  This should automatically drop you down one more 
line with the "account" highlighted.  Tab over to the "Income" column 
and enter the amount of your *gross* pay before any deductions.

Tab over to the next row, and enter the account of the first paycheck 
deduction (Expenses:Taxes:FICA for instance) and then tab over to the 
"Charge" column and enter the amount of the first deduction.

Repeat that process until you have entered everything.  Assuming that 
you have direct deposit, any amount not accounted for by a deduction, 
would, presumably, be deposited to your bank account, so you'd choose 
that account for the the remaining "deduction" to your paycheck.

Does that help?

Read the docs regarding split transactions.  They're hopefully 
written a litte better than I did above :)
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Seeya,
Paul
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